Here,w er eport ac lass of ligands based on oxalohydrazide cores and N-amino pyrrole and N-amino indole units that generates long-lived copper catalysts for couplings that form the CÀObonds in biaryl ethers.These Cucatalyzedc oupling of phenols with aryl bromides occurred with turnovers up to 8000, avalue which is nearly two orders of magnitude higher than those of prior couplings to form biaryl ethers and nearly an order of magnitude higher than those of any prior copper-catalyzed coupling of aryl bromides and chlorides.T his ligand also led to copper systems that catalyze the coupling of aryl chlorides with phenols and the coupling of aryl bromides and iodides with primary benzylic and aliphatic alcohols.Awide variety of functional groups including nitriles, halides,e thers,k etones,a mines,e sters,a mides,v inylarenes, alcohols and boronic acid esters were tolerated, and reactions occurred with aryl bromides in pharmaceutically related structures.